Back to School!

I'm doing another internship, and tomorrow I'll know more about the exact procedure, when our first day is going to be (might be Thursday in my case) and which subjects we are going to teach. Last week, they've introduced two schools, and tomorrow the final decision on who's going to be in which school is going to be made. There are two grammar schools, and they could not be more different. 

There is the Wichern Schule, which is a protestant private school that's funded by the church and private organisations. It's in a fairly upmarkety area of Hamburg and I daresay that since it's a private school, most students at that school will come from a background that encourages education. The classes in that school are not very big, due to the private funding even the smallest classes can be afforded if there is interest. 
Should be very interesting. Our supervisor is a Biology and English teacher told us a few things about the projects the school's involved in and, frankly, I'm jealous as I would have wanted to participate in some of those as well when I was at school, so I'd like to have a look at those. Also, I'm interested in the difference between state schools and private schools in Germany. The school is also a bit closer to where I live. It takes less than an hour to go there, which is good. The benefits are that the school is trying out a lot of things for which other schools do not have the money, so new projects are easily introduced and tried out.

The other school is the only Gymnasium in Kirchdorf-Wilhelmsburg. It is the exact opposite of the school mentioned above. It is a state school, it is in one of the less well-off regions in Hamburg, the children at the school often have great problems with their German. The students in one year have up to 23 different mother tongues - although that situation was pretty much the same when my brother went to school, and it did not really cause all that much trouble. There are problems with the discipline, but that is not dramatic, either. What is different, clearly, is background of the students, in most cases the parents are apparently not that interested in their children's education.
Could be a challenge, which is always good. Sadly, it is farther away than the other school. The supervisor is nice, but less competent than the other from the look of things. We've only talked to the two of them very briefly, and I instantly loved her.

So I signed up for the first one, and now I'm a thinking about reconsidering that decision. After all, my first internship was in a peaceful suburb five minutes from my home, and the students from the first school will probably be very similar to those at the first school - and how much of a difference can there be between a state school and a private school? The second school is terrible for in-semester work because it is farther away and therefore be really unclever for touring there in the morning on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but it would have been bright to choose it in spite of that. It would have been a challenge. It might have been a far better choice because it would have been something entirely new - student-wise - on the other hand, the other school might be more interesting, even though the students might not be as challenging as those at the KiWi grammar school.

Maybe there'll be a possibility to change groups. If there isn't, I'll have to stay in this one.